High-water mark
347.9772
career-best overall
96.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 347.9772 at Last Chance Points Dance (BACKYARD) — 96.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-10-25
Macalicious BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1533
peak 1536 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2025-06-20
latest 2026-03-27
Best ToY finish
#129
Backyard 2026
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 34%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
343.10
last 4 Backyard vs avg 343.10 (-0.00)
Walk rate
83%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
best run (overall)
Consistency
±4.43
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 173.13 · weakest Pork (170.26)
Road miles
674
mi across 6 mapped stops · furthest 205 mi
Schedule strength
68%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1585)
Purse competed for
$59K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
343.10 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (4 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
A tough matchup
3–1
behind in the head-to-head
Rollin Smoke BBQ ahead in 75% of their meetings
Rollin Smoke BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of LEE LA Q in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
Electro-Que-ted has landed one call behind them 2 times.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Macalicious BBQ has 4 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 75 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
#2126 of the rated field
- Contests
- 45
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 38%
- Peak
- 1587
0–2 in 2 shared contests (0% to Macalicious BBQ)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Macalicious BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2124 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1533
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2108 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1533
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 5 contests, alongside a 60% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2116 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1533
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before Macalicious BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2103 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1534
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2018, 7 years before Macalicious BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2125 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1533
No shared contest yet.
Level with Macalicious BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 166.8344 | 171.86 | top 44% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 178.2972 | 166.2284 | 173.13 | top 31% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 170.2628 | 170.26 | top 23% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 38% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 7% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 47% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.8 yrs
2025-06-20 → 2026-03-27
Busiest season
2025
4 contests
Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
5 entries · 0 wins · 3 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 173.13 · weakest Pork (170.26)
Walk rate
83%
a top-10 call in 5 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
2 of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests
Backyard average
343.10
out of 360 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
135
105–56 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
674
6 mapped stops · furthest 205 mi
Schedule strength
1585
average field rating faced — tougher than 68% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$59,350
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1533
peak 1536 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Poosa Q
- First call Poosa Q
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score343.9428 Poosa Q
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)178.2972 The Great Alabama BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- First overall top-10 Last Chance Points Dance (BACKYARD)
- Career-best overall score347.9772 Last Chance Points Dance (BACKYARD)
- 2026
- First overall podium Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1536) Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.8 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2026-03-13 |
| +10.6 | Last Chance Points Dance (BACKYARD) | 2025-10-25 |
| +10.4 | Poosa Q | 2025-06-20 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -2.4 | Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2026-03-27 |
Category scores over time
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 35% | 95.7% | 94.5% |
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 34% | 96.7% | 96.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-27 | Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) Athens, AL | 27 / 43 (335.8968) | 25 (169.6684) | 29 (166.2284) | — | — |
| 2026-03-13 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Foley, AL | 2 / 30 (344.5716) | 10 (166.8344) | 2 (177.7372) | 7 (170.2628) | — |
| 2025-10-25 | Last Chance Points Dance (BACKYARD) Cleveland, AL | 6 / 16 (347.9772) | 13 (170.8228) | 2 (177.1544) | — | — |
| 2025-10-24 | The Great Alabama BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Cleveland, AL | — | 10 (174.2744) | — | — | — |
| 2025-10-24 | The Great Alabama BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cleveland, AL | — | — | 2 (178.2972) | — | — |
| 2025-06-20 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 13 / 42 (343.9428) | 4 (177.7028) | 25 (166.2400) | — | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #129 (315 pts) | #191 (190 pts) | #139 (315 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #174 (276 pts) | #135 (438 pts) | #119 (554 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | — | #930 (127 pts) | #717 (253 pts) | — | — |